lead DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic operations team. As a key member of our organization, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining a robust infrastructure that supports our web services while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Leadership: Build and lead a high-performance DevOps team, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, manage, and maintain cloud infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments, leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, EKS, Dynamo, Aurora, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
• Automation and Tooling: Collaborate with software engineering teams to develop and refine automation tools, streamlining deployment and operational processes.
• Scalability and Adoption: Ensure infrastructure and tools support the scaling and adoption of new technologies and features.
• Security and Compliance: Develop and implement robust security and IT standards to mitigate risks and ensure compliance with company policies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with various teams to translate business needs into technical implementations and maintain high availability and disaster recovery systems.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure roles, with hands-on experience in AWS cloud environments.
• Proven expertise in high-scale, high-throughput, and distributed microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Deep understanding of networking, virtualization, and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and monitoring solutions.
• Exceptional problem-solving, strategic thinking, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A complementary degree or coursework in management, business, or a related field.
• Experience leading and building high-performance infrastructure engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to support a diverse range of user IT and compute needs, from engineers to executives.